Simple answer, EVERYTHING! A more explanatory answer is the ONLY step of this 12 Step Program that mentions alcohol is the 1st Step. The other 11 all have to do with dealing with our thinking. Since we were all – Catholics, Protestants, Islamists, Buddhists, non-believers – created by the same Higher Power (called by different names such as God, Lord, Buddha, Allah, Higher Power, It, AA Home Group, and others by different people) creative thinking is part of our inborn package. Steps 2-11 only enhance this by reminding us who got us here, who helps us stay here, and just how to do it. Step 2 says we came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. Step 3 says we made the decision to turn our wills and lives over to the care of God as we understood Him. Steps 4 and 5 help us to uncover the things that we have not been able to get out of our heads. Steps 6 and 7 educate us on how we can rid ourselves of the shortcomings uncovered in Steps 4 and 5. Steps 8 and 9 teach us how to start the process of Forgiveness spoken of in The Lord’s Prayer by taking the first steps toward our forgiving ourselves. Step 10 advises us how to move on from our yesterdays and keep our today’s Happy, Joyous, and Free. Step 11 tells us just how to pray. This step makes what is for some of us a real awakening to how to pray. Add the advice from Emmet Fox that every thought is a prayer and we are good to go. Step 12 reminds us that we have had a Spiritual Awakening as a result of these steps, and that we tried to carry this message to other alcoholics, and that we practice these principles in ALL our affairs, not just a few that we are comfortable with. This is a lot for a newcomer to swallow. Is it too much? Not of we K.I.S.S. When working our program to the best of our abilities, we sometimes face snags when life confronts us with challenges, as it will. What do we do then? I just go back to the shortened version of the 3rd Step and say “God help me” and try to get out of the way and let Him. When I do, He does! Each and every time! This is all why I believe that this program would be good for everyone, not just alcoholics. A non-alcoholic could work the 2nd half of the 1st Step by understanding that life, as it keeps coming at us, sometimes gets away from us and is unmanageable. The rest of the steps then show how simple, but not always easy, it all is.